St Josephs College - Footprints Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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On The Road To Experience Tm Trying To Find My Own Way • j- -

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Themes When the Yearbook Committee members first met and asked each other, What will the theme for the Yearbook be? , we all shrugged our shoulders and exchanged the same quizzical and blank faced expressions. In actuality, what we were looking for was one single idea, one tiny word or phrase that would encompass our four year experience at St. Joseph ' s. The quizzical looks returned. A few encouraging suggestions were tossed back and forth, but there were none that felt just right . It sooned dawned upon us that in order for us to pile four years worth of living into one single word, a single aspect of our total experience, we would have to eliminate a great deal of our insights, our learning, our discoveries, our impressions, our revelations, or whatever you want to call them. They just wouldn ' t be there. In fact, a single theme would not make our college life and spirit complete. Instead, we came up with five individual themes, which easily broaden the scope of our experiences. These themes center around John Denver ' s song, Looking for Space . The song itself focuses on the truth and reality that we ' ve come to see face to face. Rather than say, college was a breeze — let ' s do it again sometime , we are willing to admit that it wasn ' t all that easy. Sometimes we do fly like an eagle, and sometimes we are in despair. But as the song ends in optimism for the future, so do our four years. Friendship, another aspect of our theme, will be the solid, concrete foundation from which we look back on our years here. No doubt, the first friendships formed at Freshman Orientation in 1976, will be the same ones that grow after June of 1980. Perhaps these friendships could be expanded to include our faculty. This brings us to another part of our theme - dedication. There are many things that can be said about our faculty, the most important being that their dedication is very real. This dedication has nurtured our enthusiasm . . . we ' re psyched!! In turn, camaraderie of our class would not have been possible without this theme of enthusiasm. You see it everywhere, from the cafeteria to cake sales, from the first snow to the first victory for the basketball team, from the mixers to the three hour Senate meetings, and even to the numerous clubs and associations that are a part of student life. The final and perhaps most important theme is that of moving towards our dreams. From the first second we stepped through the doors of 245 four years ago, we had a goal in mind. Some dream, which at that time seemed so obscure and just out of reach, has arrived or is right nearby. But with the realization of these dreams we have new ones, more goals that we ' re setting up for ourselves and that we ' re willing to work hard to fulfill. After all, that ' s what dreams are for. We hope that these th emes are successful in describing our experiences. They are everywhere throughout the book, in pictures or in our own quotes which depict our own personal goals and dreams and even the things we want to be doing in ten years. It ' s all here, and we ourselves are saying that this is not really the end for us, but it is a new beginning. LOOKING FOR SPACE by John Denver ® Copyright 1975 Cherry Lane Music Co. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission

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Sometimes I Wish I Could . . . . . Fly Away